When the Invisible Screen Becomes Visible (DRAFT)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Loscalzo ◽  
Karen L. Clark ◽  
Courtney Bitz ◽  
Justin M. Yopp ◽  
Donald L. Rosenstein
Keyword(s):  
Active Treatment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Single Fathers ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
Biological Event ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Couples Coping ◽  
The Invisible

This chapter outlines two innovative sex- and gender-based biopsychosocial interventions: Couples Coping with Cancer Together and Single Fathers Due to Cancer. The foundation of each intervention is based on strengths inherent to the participants’ gender. Couples Coping with Cancer Together focuses on patients and partners during both active treatment and survivorship. Single Fathers Due to Cancer engages widowed fathers and their children. These two programs illustrate the relevance of sex (a one-time biological event determined at conception: male, female, intersex) and gender (how individuals defines themselves and their lives) differences in coping with the challenges of cancer. Future research is essential to empirically explore interventional studies that focus on gender-related strengths.

scholarly journals Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Cannabis Treatment Outcomes: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea C. Brabete ◽  
Lorraine Greaves ◽  
Natalie Hemsing ◽  
Julie Stinson
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Full Paper ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

There is evidence that sex- and gender-related factors are involved in cannabis patterns of use, health effects and biological mechanisms. Women and men report different cannabis use disorder (CUD) symptoms, with women reporting worse withdrawal symptoms than men. The objective of this systematic review was to examine the effectiveness of cannabis pharmacological interventions for women and men and the uptake of sex- and gender-based analysis in the included studies. Two reviewers performed the full-paper screening, and data was extracted by one researcher. The search yielded 6098 unique records—of which, 68 were full-paper screened. Four articles met the eligibility criteria for inclusion. From the randomized clinical studies of pharmacological interventions, few studies report sex-disaggregated outcomes for women and men. Despite emergent evidence showing the influence of sex and gender factors in cannabis research, sex-disaggregated outcomes in pharmacological interventions is lacking. Sex- and gender-based analysis is incipient in the included articles. Future research should explore more comprehensive inclusion of sex- and gender-related aspects in pharmacological treatments for CUD.

scholarly journals Elucidating the Relationship Between Insomnia, Sex, and Cardiovascular Disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 247028972098001
Author(s):  
Rebecca Leeds ◽  
Ari Shechter ◽  
Carmela Alcantara ◽  
Brooke Aggarwal ◽  
John Usseglio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sex Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cvd Mortality

Sex differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality have been attributed to differences in pathophysiology between men and women and to disparities in CVD management that disproportionately affect women compared to men. Similarly, there has been investigation of differences in the prevalence and presentation of insomnia attributable to sex. Few studies have examined how sex and insomnia interact to influence CVD outcomes, however. In this review, we summarize the literature on sex-specific differences in the prevalence and presentation of insomnia as well as existing research regarding the relationship between insomnia and CVD outcomes as it pertains to sex. Research to date indicate that women are more likely to have insomnia than men, and there appear to be differential associations in the relation between insomnia and CVD by sex. We posit potential mechanisms of the relationship between sex, insomnia and CVD, discuss gaps in the existing literature, and provide commentary on future research needed in this area. Unraveling the complex relations between sex, insomnia, and CVD may help to explain sex-specific differences in CVD, and identify sex-specific strategies for promotion of cardiovascular health. Throughout this review, terms “men” and “women” are used as they are in the source literature, which does not differentiate between sex and gender. The implications of this are also discussed.

“I am an atypical mother”: Motherhood and maternal language in Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 001458582199184
Author(s):  
Danila Cannamela
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
New Words ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Maternal Language ◽  
Queer Representation ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Male To Female

In her debut book Dolore minimo, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto engages in a reflection on motherhood to recount an autobiographical story of gender self-determination and male to female transition. This article explores Vivinetto’s poetry as the retelling of transformative moments in two mother–daughter relationships, which generate a reshaping of life and language. In the book, these two storylines intersect, blur, and even overlap, creating a poetic discourse in which the maternal acts simultaneously as powerful catalyzer and producer of meanings. In discussing how, in Dolore minimo, the relationship of two atypical mothers becomes the creative site of a new possible symbolic order, my analysis engages an atypical approach: it reads Vivinetto’s queer representation of motherhood via the theorization developed by the women of Diotima—including, in particular, Luisa Muraro, Chiara Zamboni, Diana Sartori, and Ida Dominijanni. These feminist thinkers have been generally criticized for reinforcing binary understandings of sex and gender, based on an essentialist view of the category of woman. Yet, what if the feminism forwarded by Diotima, by positioning the feminine as a creative producer and first-person narrator of change, could still offer a productive avenue for dialogue? The article begins with a discussion of Diotima’s key theorizations, which lays the groundwork for interpreting the maternal poetics of Dolore minimo. The subsequent sections examine in more depth how Vivinetto’s poetry has reinvented the figure of the mother as a teacher and learner of new words, and how, through this reinvention, she has crafted a maternal language that knits together new relations of contiguity and change. Ultimately, by redeploying the figure of the mother beyond cisgender norms, Vivinetto’s poetry is revealing the inexhaustible vitality of this character.

Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-333
Author(s):  
Ning Hsieh ◽  
Stef M. Shuster
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Research on the social dimensions of health and health care among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) has grown rapidly in the last two decades. However, a comprehensive review of the extant interdisciplinary scholarship on SGM health has yet to be written. In response, we offer a synthesis of recent scholarship. We discuss major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine. Within this synthesis, we also consider the conceptual and methodological limitations that continue to beleaguer the field and offer suggestions for several promising directions for future research and theory building. SGM health bridges the scholarly interests in social and health sciences and contributes to broader sociological concerns regarding the persistence of sexuality- and gender-based inequalities.

Sex and gender: More than just demographic variables

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210027
Author(s):  
Callaghan Walter
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Canadian Armed Forces ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Health And Well Being

LAY SUMMARY Taking as a starting point that sex and gender are not the same thing, a principal understanding of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+), this article reviews research published in 2020 on the health and well-being of Veterans and currently serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces. The purpose of this review was to see how sex and gender were referred to in this published literature. The published research tended not to differentiate between sex and gender, often using the two terms as though they referred to the same thing. Possible reasons for why this has happened are explored, as is the importance of treating sex and gender as fundamentally different things.

scholarly journals Missing in Action: Sex and Gender in Substance Use Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Missing In Action ◽  
Important Health Issue

Substance use and misuse is a significant global health issue that requires a sex- and gender-based analysis. Substance use patterns and trends are gendered: that is, women and men, girls and boys, and gender-diverse people often exhibit different rates of use of substances, reasons for use, modes of administration, and effects of use. Sex-specific effects and responses to substances are also important, with various substances affecting females and males differentially. Nevertheless, much research and practice in responding to substance use and misuse remains gender blind, ignoring the impacts of sex and gender on this important health issue. This special issue identifies how various aspects of sex and gender matter in substance use, illustrates the application of sex- and gender-based analyses to a range of substances, populations and settings, and assists in progressing sex and gender science in relation to substance use.

scholarly journals Three Decades of Progress in Sleep Disorders and Sleep Health for Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 247028972094187
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Marsella ◽  
Katherine M. Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder ◽  
Behavior Disorder ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Sleep Health ◽  
Sleep Behavior ◽  
Obstructive Sleep ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Over the past 3 decades, significant strides have been made in the field of sleep medicine for women. The impact of sex and gender on sleep health and sleep disorders received little attention in the early 1990s, but driven by policies ensuring inclusion of women in medical research, more recent studies have identified sex differences in sleep and investigated gender differences in sleep disorders. Nevertheless, disparities remain: diagnosis of sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder are often delayed and underdiagnosed in women. Future research should continue to examine how biological sex and identity across the gender spectrum influence sleep health and sleep disorders, allowing for more personalized health care for all patients.

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